Personally, I don't think that the returns from overclocking are worth it if your machine is producing any errors at all. But many machines can be easily overclocked 20-50% without any errors. The degree of safe overclocking depends on the hardware, weather, dust buildup and your CPU cooler. The CPU matters - Core 2 CPUs are excellent for overclocking, as does the quality of your motherboard and RAM.
The best way to check that a machine is producing error-free results - and trust me, machines that are not overclocked produce errors as well - is to do a few doublechecks every once in a while and cross-check the correctness of the results. I would recommend starting a new machine with a month of doublechecking and tossing in a doublecheck every once in a while - more at the start of the summer i.e. now! While the v5 server is still in beta-testing and the results displayed are currently not real-time - they are updated every two weeks or so I believe - you can still check your results on the page at http://v5www.mersenne.org/report_ll/ Put in your exponent on the first field of the exponent range - leaving the second field blank or with a value less than the first field will return only results for your exponent. And make sure none of the exclude boxes is checked. Anurag Jud McCranie wrote: > George Woltman wrote: > >> There are many overclocked machines that produce reliable results. >> A lot depends on how close-to-the-edge you push it and whether you >> regularly check to make sure all is still well (changing seasons, dust >> buildup, >> aging parts can all turn a stable overclock into an unstable one). >> > There must be a point of diminishing returns in overclocking, where the > errors it introduces ruin so many results it isn't worth it. Do you > have an idea of where that is, or does it depend on many factors? > > _______________________________________________ > Prime mailing list > [email protected] > http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
